That these facts are largely unknown today shows how the connection between women’s liberation and socialism has been all but lost over the past two decades. Rose Boland, a sewing machinist from Ford’s car factory in Dagenham, who was campaigning for equal pay, and May Hobbs, an office cleaner by night who led a major strike of the night cleaners, became vibrant symbols of the movement.Īnne Lopes and Gary Roth, Men’s Feminism, (Humanity Books, 2000), 261pp. The women’s movement which gathered pace in Britain from 1969 onwards was accompanied by a series of strikes supported enthusiastically by those campaigning for women’s liberation. Two of the best known theoretical works on women’s oppression remain Friedrich Engels Origin of the family, private property and the state, and August Bebel’s Women and socialism. Karl Marx’s youngest daughter, Eleanor, served on the executive of the Gasworkers’ union from 1890 to 1895 in recognition of her organising the unskilled, the Irish immigrants and the women in the New Unions in Britain. They chose the date to commemorate the strikes of young female and often immigrant textile workers in New York’s lower east side. Here are some little remembered facts: International women’s day was established by socialist women, meeting in conference in Copenhagen in 1910. We are posting it now as part of a series of contributions to the debate on women’s oppression |t Women and socialism, socialism and women.Lindsey German wrote this review for Historical Materialism over a decade ago but it wasn’t published. German Communism and New Women: Dilemmas and Contradictions Atina Grossmann PART II: GRASSROOTS INITIATIVES Introduction Pamela Graves Chapter 4. Modernization as Challenge: Perceptions and Reactions of German Social Democratic Women Adelheid von Saldern Chapter 3. "The "New Woman": Realities and Illusions of Gender Equality in Red Vienna Helmut Gruber Chapter 2.
|a List of Photo Essays List of Acronyms Acknowledgments Introduction Helmut Gruber & Pamela Graves 1914: Great Feminist Expectations Michelle Perrot PART I: SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS Introduction Atina Grossmann Chapter 1. |a Electronic access restricted to Villanova University patrons. |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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